old-fogyish
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Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gone from the front page are the old-fogyish editorial cartoons, as well as the proclamation that this is the "American Paper for Americans."
From Time Magazine Archive
The business of the company is managed on the outfit system, the most old-fogyish, yet by its officers declared to be the most perfect, plan in use by any corporation.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian
Doubtless he is old-fogyish but from his long association with our family he knows the Forsyth traditions and what the head of the House of Forsyth should be.
From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt
But his scheme received no encouragement from the old-fogyish authorities.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
